madeira – Portuguese noun declension

Noun: madeira
Gender: f m Hyphenation:

Singular m	madeira
Singular f	madeira
Plural f	madeiras

uncountable

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like madeira

pá, média, manilha, madeira, mata, cocó, zica,

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese madeira, from Latin māteria, from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr (“mother”). Doublet of matéria, a learned borrowing. Cognates include Galician madeira and Spanish madera. See: Latin Nouns 'māteria', Galician Nouns 'madeira', Spanish Nouns 'madera'.

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